arkansas governor sarah huckabee , sanders declared a state of emergency as the storms ripped through several towns. she spoke about the destruction a short time ago. i ve had the opportunity over the last couple of hours to speak with both the homeland security secretary as well as president biden, who have offered a tremendous amount of support anything that arkansas need from a city county state and federal perspective, i would say that everyone is working in total lockstep and we re going to do everything we can to make sure that people of our state are back on their feet again. but the storm threat is not over. a new round of severe weather is threatening 70 million americans today. cnn has teams following all the latest developments from these deadly storms. let s begin with derek van dam. he s live for us in hard hit. when arkansas derek what s the situation? yeah fredricka. you know the devastation here is immense, quoting the mayor of when arkansas, he said. it s lik
weekend of deadly severe storms. in parts of arkansas. the damages catastrophic reports of at least a dozen tornadoes. they re the hardest hit area was the town of wind. we don t know what s left. all my neighbors house is about destroyed. my two boys are out now trying to help dig people out of their homes. little rock, arkansas also bearing the brunt of these storms, the city s mayor, telling cnn today that entire neighborhoods were flattened. impact is devastating. i just came out of nowhere. clearly no, it was coming. everyone took cover, as relates to the emergency response from that standpoint, but just to see the devastation of the impact of the flattening of homes, flattening of businesses and a matter of minutes. and more devastation and several other states, including indiana and tennessee , as state that is reporting seven deaths now, but the threat is far from over. millions are now bracing for a new round of storms. today cnn has teams tracking the latest from th
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administration should ignore this ruling. how will the fda respond? health and human services secretary javier bezerra and democratic congresswoman alexandria koziol cortez next and political retribution. tennessee republicans expelled two democrats over their gun reform protests during session they think of the issues over we ll see you on monday, another flashpoint in the guns debate. you ve aldi congressman tony gonzalez will join me, plus ultra mega, a defiant former president vows to fight charges against him as other ongoing probes accelerate our republican voters responding do not go to the gutter avoided, it turns off the voters. hello i m dana bash in washington, where the state of our union is wondering what doesn t become politicized these days, we just closed out an especially bitter and divisive week in american politics. on tuesday, former president donald trump was indicted in new york and is vowing vengeance as it appears possible. the case could go to trial m
easter sunday from new york. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin this hour in the middle east, where israel says it has carried out air strikes in syrian territory. israel s defense forces releasing a video it says shows strikes on a syrian military compound radar systems and artillery posts. the strikes were launched after israel says rockets were fired from syria toward the golan heights and in the west bank today, a funeral was held for two two british israeli sisters who were killed in an attack on friday. days of violence erupted following an israeli police raid on the al aqsa mosque compound in jerusalem last week. cnn s fred pleitgen is in jerusalem fred what s the latest? fredricka. well, certainly pretty big incident that happened there today on the border with syria when you had those rockets that came flying over from syrian territory, the israel defense forces say they say that those came flying towards the golan heights, which, of course are held by israel and t